Tony Broadbent: 3 books

The Smoke' — (Cockney slang for London) — is about a cat burglar and jewel thief, called Jethro, in the austere world of 1947 post-war, black-market-riddled England.Brought up in and around one of London's famed street markets, Jethro is as smart as he is street wise, which is just as well, as he...

It is 1949, and 'The Smoke' remains tarnished with shattered, abandoned buildings and bombsites. Its the perfect backdrop for Jethro - honest Cockney cat burglar - to redistribute the wealth of the upper classes. The day after thieving jewels from a mansion, headlines scream that the very man Jethro...

Its black-marketriddled England, and MI5 has pushed cat burglar and jewel thief Jethro out onto the rooftops of London - again - in defense of the Realm. Ever looming in the background are the twin spectres of the growing communist menace and a resurgence of fascism. Things turn decidedly deadly when...